The maid therefore that wasportress saith to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's disciple?
The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the portress and brought in Peter.
As has been seen, it chanced to be her turn to superintend the guest's quarters at that time, and the portress had of course informed her immediately of Keyork's coming, in order that she might tell Beatrice.
He rang the bell furiously, and the old portress set the gate ajar and looked out cautiously, fearing that the noisy peal meant trouble or disturbance.
Within, the portress stood shaking with fear, crossing herself again and again, and verily believing that the devil himself had tried to force an entrance into the sacred place.
I believe theportress keeps such a book," said Sister Paul still shaking her head uneasily.
They passed straight down together in silence to the convent-gate; and were admitted immediately by the portress whose face was convulsed and swollen.
He was admitted instantly when he rang on the bell, but the portress seemed to look at him with a strange air of expectancy, and stood looking after him as he went across the paved court to the door of the guest-house.
Sir James made a gesture, and passed in to the tiny lodge on the left where the portress usually sat; Chris and Mary followed him in, and Mr. Morris went across to the guest-house.
Ralph did not turn his head an inch, and a moment later disappeared on horse-back through the gate, and the portress had closed it behind him.
Mr. Morris was waiting now by his master's horse; the portress was by her door.
The portress had disappeared through the second door that led from the tiny room in which they sat, into the precincts of the convent itself.
As the bell rang out again impatiently, the door behind opened, and the portress came swiftly through, followed by the Abbess.
Tell the portress to let the lady abbess know there are enemies coming near, and that she had better take counsel immediately.
It was a small community of hospitable nuns, where the withered portress informed him that three ladies had slept there the night before, and she did think that one of them had come up to the gates with an odd-looking brown man.
The portress peered at the visitors through her spy-hole, and being satisfied that they were the expected guests, speedily opened the iron-clamped door.
The portress was immediately commissioned to take home the work, and to receive its price, which was destined for the purchase of half-a-load of wood.
The gossip who did this was a Gorgon of the name of Madame Victurnien, guardian and portress of everybody's virtue.
The voices of several men and the protestations of the old portresscould be heard.
Sister Simplice sent a servant-girl to inquire of theportress of the factory whether M.
Madeleine was wont to come in, the worthy portress rose mechanically, took the key of M.
The servant stammered,-- "The portress told me that he could not come to-day.
But it was not to her that Newman applied; he simply asked of the portress if M.
The portress could not tell him whether Madame de Cintre was visible; he would please to apply at the farther door.
Domiciled once more in the Boulevard Haussmann, he walked over to the Rue de l'Universite and inquired of Madame de Bellegarde's portress whether the marquise had come back.
The portresstold him that she had arrived, with M.
The portress cast an anxious doubtful glance, but being apparently convinced, cried out for pardon, while hastily unlocking her door, and sending a message to the Abbess.
Then he himself went away through the high corridor and the dark lodge, and the portress let him out in silence.
The portress opened one of the doors and shut it as soon as Gambardella had entered.
She had put on the old brass ring herself when the portress had sent it up to her with his message; she took it off now and gave it back to him, careful that not even the tips of her fingers should touch his palm.
I see that you are well-informed,' theportress answered, somewhat reluctantly.
Rodin; not finding him at home, he had left with the portress his name written on a slip of paper, with the words, 'I shall return in two hours.
Wishing to have all possible details," resumed Mother Bunch, "I asked the portress if M.
Why, no, my friend; the portress would have told us so when we came in," replied Madame Clapart.
A portress admitted him with a smile and led him through the sumptuously appointed chamber of guests into the intramural park.
The portress conducted him into the faintly lighted chamber of guests and went forth silently.
The old portress clapped her hands with a shrill command but the shadow was gone.
Presently an old portress came forth from a side entry and Kenkenes seized her.
As the old portress put back the outer doors leading into the street, that her young master might go forth, a shadow quick as thought slipped out after him.
The portress took it into the dormitory, where it was tenderly received and cared for by the sisters on duty there.
They were strangers to each other, so the portress introduced them.
The portress who answered it found there a basket containing an infant a few weeks old.
The portress does not know what to do, and has sent me to you for instructions," said Sister Francoise.
The portress made a movement of her hand to the bell; but then thinking better of it, did not ring; and Marie and her lover, without further opposition, passed at once into the streets of Paris.
The portress had a busy morning, even after Doctor Pieri had come and had written out a bulletin which she could show to all comers as an official statement of the injured man's condition.
The portress opened the door into the hall and a confused sound of voices came from the passage.
She also went out to the lodge, to warn the portress that Captain Severi was expected, and must not be kept waiting even a few seconds longer than was necessary.
He was told that this must depend on the surgeon's decision; he expressed his thanks to the portress with extreme civility and drove away again.
The portress was waiting for Madame Bernard to enter, but the Frenchwoman had changed her mind and held up her hand, shaking one forefinger.
The portress had asked the usual questions of him as soon as he presented himself, but Sister Giovanna repeated them.
Before she had quite done, the portress caught sight of her and was filled with horror.
She had found the portress in considerable perturbation, for the right carriage had just arrived, a quarter of an hour late instead of half-an-hour too soon.
She raised her finger to her veiled lips, and then pointed to the other door, to warn him that the portress was there and was almost within hearing.
Moreover, the portress was only a lay sister, an old and ignorant creature, accustomed to do what she was told to do by the ladies of the convent.
The portress was expecting him, and he was admitted without a word.
The portressshook her head almost imperceptibly as she obeyed, but she said nothing.
At this point the portress appeared in the distance, and Maria Addolorata, hearing footsteps, turned her head from Dalrymple, raising her veil a little, so that she could recognize the lay sister without showing her face to the young man.
Then he went out, passed through the antechamber, and found the portress waiting for him as usual.
Dalrymple, like Sor Tommaso, was admitted to the antechamber, while the portress waited outside to conduct him back again.
Good day, Signor Doctor," she answered, through the open door, as the portress jingled her keys and prepared to follow Dalrymple.
He rang at the main gate, waited long in the darkness, and heard at last the slapping and shuffling of shoes along the pavement within, as the portress and another nun came to let him in.
There was the usual slapping and shuffling of slippers in the vaulted archway within, but as it was now day, the loophole was opened immediately, and the portress came alone.
But he was bewildered between high name and low name, between the saint there in the portress and the evident harlot.
Montjoy, being no fool, saw, indeed, how much of the portress was lewd and drunken.
The little business plied by the good portress must have been progressing finely, for the cellarlike hole under the stairs was wet with emptied heeltaps and water.
Well now," continued the portress when she had served the supers, "is it the little dark chap out there you want?
Bordenave lowered his voice and furiously reproached the portress for having allowed the Tricon to come in.
At that moment Mme Bron, the portress of the theater, passed by the door with an immense bouquet in her arms.
In grievous trepidation the portress was retreating to her lodge, which stood just within the gate, when an upper window of the convent opened, and a female voice enquired, in commanding tones, the cause of the uproar.
Before the portress could shut the wicket, close to which she was standing, he thrust his hand and arm through it, and grasped her by her skinny throat.
Presently a small wicket in the centre of the gate was opened, and the pinched and crabbed features of the lay-sister who acted as portress showed themselves at the aperture.
The portress and another old lay sister were the only persons visible in the court, and the last of these invited Rita to accompany her into the convent.
Bouffard, stepping to the door, as the portress pulled the rope.
A few minutes afterwards theportress ushered into Mlle.
You sent a watch and some silver, too, to the pawnbroker's, for it was my portress who took them there for you.
But that reminds me, I must inform the portress that I am at home to M.
Maillefort, told the portress to ask the messenger to wait, as there might be an answer required.
You had better tell our portress to call a cab for you.
When the portress had left the room, Herminie returned to Mlle.
And the portress hurried away, feeling that things had happened in a life which was beyond her life, beyond its scope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
